Bad night. I hardly slept at all. First, I had trouble sleeping as my mind decided to stay at work and worry about some of the issues there. I tried pulling it back to the here and now, but it just twanged back to regurgitate the same ole same ole.
When I finally managed to get to sleep, the power went off! That was around eleven - it woke me up. Not just 'huh? Oh! Never mind' but wide awake. I got up, checked where my mippies were then went to the lounge and opened the front door for a smoke. Then another, then another. Then I had some milk and tried going back to sleep. No luck. I cuddled mippies, made them purr, held them close, yet I simply could not go to sleep.
The family of three were all cuddled together by my feet, Tynx had retreated into the cat carrier. I picked her out and held her till she purred. She wriggled free and started playing -with the noisy toys, of course!
Eventually I must have fallen asleep, as I woke up very early when some sort of alarm started beeping. More like something complaining about low battery ... just enough to wake me up. I tried turning over again ... then it was five and Tynx licked me awake. I tried turning over again ... and the alarm went off.
Still no power. I boiled some water on the gas stove for my coffee, cleaned the litter boxes - still gushing about the wood fiber! Gave Tynx some mousse and appeased the rest with a sachet of Whiskas ... I forgot to order pet food this week. It's now too late, since Friday is a holiday, so I'll have to order next week. I won't run out, at least!
One important thing to remember, if the power goes out, is that mippies water fountain also goes out - and they then have no water. They no longer drink from any other source, so I don't have any alternatives - normally. This morning I remembered to fill the dispenser for them, though - so no worries!
Och, the lack of sleep is seriously catching up with me this afternoon. I can't wait to get home and to sleep! I wonder if the power is back on? I haven't had the courage to sms my landlady to find out ...
I was thinking, today, that a good title for the 'work related' blog would be: The Secret Diary of an Industrial Engineer. Says it all, doesn't it? I'm thinking about it ...
On the way home, I got another bottle of milk - lucky again, it was the last one! At home, I let all my mippies out - Tynx, yet again, came running right back in for food. I gave her one scoop of mousse, no more. She came and joined us outside - and, amazingly, did not venture very far and she reacted to my call the same way all my mippies did - she came rushing inside, no trouble! We came in quite early.
I'm thinking of getting myself a breakfast tray, so that I can eat my dinner in my armchair, in front of my 'TV', i.e. the PC. It beats sitting alone in the kitchen - albeit at the table. I like the formality of sitting at a proper table for dinner - yet, at the same time, it's lonely. Even though all my mippies join me, Ziva usually on the chair behind me. Still ... it feels less lonely in the room with the PC, with an episode of whatever show I'm watching at the time. Strange, but there it is.
One of the the issues which kept me awake last night was work ... fortunately I managed to put that to rest today. I had a problem, which kept puzzling me - I've solved the puzzle, so I should have no trouble falling asleep.
I do struggle to sleep without my audio book now. That's why the power outage kept me awake such a long time. I normally use the audio book to sync my minds when I have trouble falling asleep ... I focus on the words, especially descriptions and imagine what is being described in the book at the time ... my subconscious tends to try to follow the story, so with both 'in sync', I manage to fall asleep. Before I used audio books, my sub-conscious used to go off on all sorts of tangents, usually time-travelling. As in, meandering into the past to fetch some regrets or rushing into the future to paint some fear - and I just could not sleep. I used to toss and turn for hours every night. And just putting on the book, isn't enough - I have to make the effort to visualise what is being described ... something I used to do, when reading, anyway, so it's not something I had to learn.
Internet, on the PC, is impossibly slow - there is no way I'll have the patience to play anything ... fortunately, writing the blog is not affected. Sometimes, I simply can't save - but if I leave it open long enough, it usually saves. Sometimes publishing is a problem - but, again, since it's saved, sooner or later the 'publish' button works.
It's been another hot day - almost a summer day. I've had to put the butter back into the fridge, I'd kept it out during winter, so it doesn't get too hard - but I don't want it to go rancid, either.
Aww, the little black mip is stretched out along the side of the bed. She is such a darling! Such loving mannerisms - not naughty at all! Playful, sure, but - just like all my mips - doing her best to please me; as I do my best to make them happy! Well, I've got Mewthos on the bed with me as well, Janey on the sleeper couch - for now ... so, I think it's time to get an early night and catch up on some of the sleep I missed out last night!
One important thing to remember, if the power goes out, is that mippies water fountain also goes out - and they then have no water. They no longer drink from any other source, so I don't have any alternatives - normally. This morning I remembered to fill the dispenser for them, though - so no worries!
Och, the lack of sleep is seriously catching up with me this afternoon. I can't wait to get home and to sleep! I wonder if the power is back on? I haven't had the courage to sms my landlady to find out ...
I was thinking, today, that a good title for the 'work related' blog would be: The Secret Diary of an Industrial Engineer. Says it all, doesn't it? I'm thinking about it ...
On the way home, I got another bottle of milk - lucky again, it was the last one! At home, I let all my mippies out - Tynx, yet again, came running right back in for food. I gave her one scoop of mousse, no more. She came and joined us outside - and, amazingly, did not venture very far and she reacted to my call the same way all my mippies did - she came rushing inside, no trouble! We came in quite early.
I'm thinking of getting myself a breakfast tray, so that I can eat my dinner in my armchair, in front of my 'TV', i.e. the PC. It beats sitting alone in the kitchen - albeit at the table. I like the formality of sitting at a proper table for dinner - yet, at the same time, it's lonely. Even though all my mippies join me, Ziva usually on the chair behind me. Still ... it feels less lonely in the room with the PC, with an episode of whatever show I'm watching at the time. Strange, but there it is.
One of the the issues which kept me awake last night was work ... fortunately I managed to put that to rest today. I had a problem, which kept puzzling me - I've solved the puzzle, so I should have no trouble falling asleep.
I do struggle to sleep without my audio book now. That's why the power outage kept me awake such a long time. I normally use the audio book to sync my minds when I have trouble falling asleep ... I focus on the words, especially descriptions and imagine what is being described in the book at the time ... my subconscious tends to try to follow the story, so with both 'in sync', I manage to fall asleep. Before I used audio books, my sub-conscious used to go off on all sorts of tangents, usually time-travelling. As in, meandering into the past to fetch some regrets or rushing into the future to paint some fear - and I just could not sleep. I used to toss and turn for hours every night. And just putting on the book, isn't enough - I have to make the effort to visualise what is being described ... something I used to do, when reading, anyway, so it's not something I had to learn.
Internet, on the PC, is impossibly slow - there is no way I'll have the patience to play anything ... fortunately, writing the blog is not affected. Sometimes, I simply can't save - but if I leave it open long enough, it usually saves. Sometimes publishing is a problem - but, again, since it's saved, sooner or later the 'publish' button works.
It's been another hot day - almost a summer day. I've had to put the butter back into the fridge, I'd kept it out during winter, so it doesn't get too hard - but I don't want it to go rancid, either.
Aww, the little black mip is stretched out along the side of the bed. She is such a darling! Such loving mannerisms - not naughty at all! Playful, sure, but - just like all my mips - doing her best to please me; as I do my best to make them happy! Well, I've got Mewthos on the bed with me as well, Janey on the sleeper couch - for now ... so, I think it's time to get an early night and catch up on some of the sleep I missed out last night!
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